Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.